Data Exchange For Quality Measures Implementation Guide
5.0.0-ballot - STU5 Ballot
Data Exchange For Quality Measures Implementation Guide
5.0.0-ballot - STU5 Ballot
This page is part of the Da Vinci Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM) FHIR IG (v5.0.0-ballot: STU5 (v5.0.0) Ballot 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 4.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
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